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Etsy country director visits Oz – five insights from the crafty company
2:02PM | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 | Michelle HammondThe country director of US-based eCommerce website Etsy has offered some insight into the company, and has outlined some key tips for online start-ups, as part of her Australian visit.
Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Technology | Social media | Websites | How I did it | Sole traderLong-term strategy is the key to a successful SME: Research
2:47PM | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 | Yolanda RedrupThe vast majority of Australia's top small businesses have a clear vision and comprehensive long-term business strategy, according to new research from the New South Wales Business Chamber.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth StrategyPollenizer pockets $1.1 million as Asian market sizzles
2:37PM | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 | Michelle HammondOnline venture builder Pollenizer plans to create eight start-ups in Australia and south-east Asia this year, after raising $1.1 million from investors including Pandora founder Brook Adcock.
| Growth | Growth Strategy | Financing a business | Venture CapitalRoamz to help relieve retailers’ woes with new analytics tool
2:33PM | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 | Michelle HammondAustralian app developer Jonathan Barouch has promised to help retailers by way of a new app tool, which utilise social media data to deliver real-time insight about customers.
| Business planning | Growth | Technology | Social media | Websites | ITUS-founded THack to launch in Oz in April
2:00AM | Tuesday, 19 February 2013 | Michelle HammondAustralia will play host to its first THack in April, when developers will create and showcase new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools over the course of just eight days.
| Business planning | Growth | Technology | Sole traderAnother $350 million for innovation fund under Venture Australia
2:06PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Michelle HammondStart-ups look set to benefit from a new $350 million round of equity funding through the federal government’s Innovation Investment Fund, announced as part of the Venture Australia package.
| Business planning | Growth | Financing a business | Venture Capital | Growing | Sole traderStart-ups highlight lessons learnt at Advance Innovation pitch-fest
2:59PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Michelle HammondEntrepreneurs have spoken of their experiences at the “start-up pitch-fests” held for the Advance Innovation Program, highlighting the importance of preparation and the structure of your pitch.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth StrategyShould you tandem skydive to grow your business? Three outlandish workshops
2:55PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Michelle HammondBusiness owners are being encouraged to “get their business flying” by participating in a workshop that begins with a tandem skydive, as business workshops become more outlandish.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Sole traderDo you run a business or just support a hobby?
2:25PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Oliver MilmanWhen you start making money from your hobby, you can enter a grey area between commerce and recreation. Here are the five signs you’re ready to cross the line from being a hobbyist to an entrepreneur. BY OLIVER MILMAN.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth StrategySmall business confidence falls in December quarter: NAB survey
2:28PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Patrick StaffordBoth small business confidence and conditions continued to fall during the December quarter, according to the latest results from a regular NAB survey.
| Planning | Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | LeadershipLook at how the tech giants do retail
2:21PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | TaskmasterThe future of traditional bricks-and-mortar retail could be shaped by an unlikely industry.
| Business planning | Marketing | Growth | Growth Strategy | Sales and marketing | Advertising | SalesBling makes shoes twice as nice
2:55PM | Monday, 18 February 2013 | Michelle HammondSydney-based shoe label Aleeyas sells leather sandals with interchangeable jeweled tops. Co-founders Sharmeen Arain and Rax Huq came up with the concept while they were on their honeymoon.
| Growth | Start-up Profiles | GrowingSalt therapy entrepreneur among first BOD12 graduates
2:06PM | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Michelle HammondThe co-founder of natural therapy franchise Salts of the Earth has spoken of his experience in the Board of Directors 12 program, after becoming one of the program’s first five graduates.
| Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Leadership | Sole traderBiotech start-up scores $1.25 million to develop therapeutic peptide drugs
2:58PM | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Michelle HammondA start-up launched by the ithree institute at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) plans to develop autoimmune drugs after receiving a $1.25 million investment from the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund.
| Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Financing a business | Venture CapitalWe need an innovation council, says Australia’s chief scientist
2:53PM | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Michelle HammondStart-ups could benefit from the establishment of an Australian Innovation Council, proposed by Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb as one of five “breakthrough actions” to boost innovation.
| Business planning | Growth | Financing a business | Venture CapitalRuslan Kogan: Kickstarter is a "glorified video editing competition"
2:36PM | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Patrick StaffordInternet entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan has attacked Kickstarter, calling the crowdfunding website a glorified video editing competition.
| Growth | Growth Strategy | Financing a business | Venture Capital | Technology | Social media | Websites | ITWhy Westfield isn’t a worry for myCube
2:49AM | Friday, 15 February 2013 | Michelle HammondStanley Hsu is the founder of myCube, a retail store that features hundreds of “cubes” displaying innovative products, which won the Best Start-up Idea category at the 2012 StartupSmart Awards. BY MICHELLE HAMMOND.
| Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Financing a business | Venture CapitalVOLT Media to supercharge Alphabird following acquisition
2:07PM | Thursday, 14 February 2013 | Michelle HammondAustralian advertising agency VOLT Media has been acquired by San Francisco-based company Alphabird, less than six months after the two companies announced an exclusive partnership.
| Business planning | Growth | Growth Strategy | Buy a business | GrowingMetcash goes to market with new fresh food franchise
2:03PM | Thursday, 14 February 2013 | Michelle HammondWholesale distribution company Metcash is ramping up its fight against supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, after launching a new food franchise called Harvest Market.
| Growth | Growth Strategy | Franchising | Becoming a franchisee | StartingFive reasons to be cheerful about the economy
2:48PM | Thursday, 14 February 2013 | Yolanda RedrupEconomic news has been largely doom and gloom over the past few years, but there are five reasons the Australian economy is moving toward happier days.
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